Kanadisches Thanksgiving

So last Sunday, the Canadians celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. We did this by cooking things. No problem-o, right? Wrong.

In North America we take many things for granted; one of which is Thanksgiving, another of which is the availability of Thanksgiving stuff, such as turkeys, stuffing ingredients, and all the pre-made bits of Thanksgiving that are so special.

Here in Germany they don’t have the illustrious holiday that redefined our notion of leftovers, and comfortable pants; not only that, but Thanksgiving dinner is on Sunday, and Sundays are days where Germans don’t like doing anything. Nothing was open that day except the gas station down the road.

However, despite all these setbacks Thanksgiving went off without a hitch. Everyone brought food (too much food), and I even helped cook a turkey (which I actually thought was a chicken until a friend came to help me bring it over, and told me that I had, indeed, cooked a turkey).

It was nice, overall. We got together, ate, talked, and afterwards had pumpkin pie and cleaned up. It was all pretty makeshift, which really just added to the charm of it all. Now all I need to do is find some Americans and horn in on their Thanksgiving…

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